“Like with Bowie,” says Amanda Palmer, “We could think of no better action than to get into the studio, and mourn and feel Prince using the music.”

The pair covered the entire Purple Rain album for a New Year's Eve show in New York in 2012.

“When Prince passed away,” Jherek explains in a post on his blog, “We went back and forth about whether we should make something. We knew in our hearts that we wanted to, but it seemed like a bit much, so soon after the Bowie record. But losing Prince was just too much. Losing them both, just too much. Making the Bowie record had been so extremely therapeutic for us, and getting deep into those songs was such an intense and beautiful experience. It was no different working on this. It just gave me an even deeper love of one of the greatest musicians ever to walk this earth.”